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Bring Your Characters to Life
What makes a character memorable? How do we make readers see our characters as we see them? Where do we “find” our characters? What should we look for in a protagonist? What makes a character likeable or dislikeable? These are just a few of the questions we’ll explore in this lively and wide-ranging workshop. Considering characters from both her own and other writers’ fiction, Leslie will lead participants on an examination of how characters take form in the writer’s mind, how they develop into people readers identify with and care about, and what brings them to life on the page. We will discuss techniques such as dialog, mirroring, and voice. We will also examine ways to give secondary characters distinct personalities, how to construct complex villains, and how to leave room for characters to find their own ways in the narrative.
Leslie will also teach Editing Your Work: Vision and Revision, a three-hour workshop on Saturday, Feb. 6. Join Leslie and T. Greenwood, author of The Hungry Season, for a reading of their new novels Saturday, Feb. 6, at The Ink Spot. Click here for more info.
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Leslie Larson is the author of Breaking Out of Bedlam and Slipstream, both published by Crown/Shaye Areheart Books. Her work has appeared in Faultline, the Writer, More, and the Women’s Review of Books, among other publications. She has worked in the publishing industry for twenty-five years and teaches writing at Macondo, a masters writing workshop in San Antonio founded by Sandra Cisneros. Leslie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her website at 
